Just about had it with RCIA

[miss_fluffy]

My RCIA instructor just informed us via email that Thursday is the "Feast of the Immaculate Conception" - which refers to when Mary found out she would give birth to Baby Jesus.

 

Isn't this completely wrong?  She seems to be implying that the Immaculate Conception is the conception of Jesus rather than the conception of Mary?

[DominusTecum]

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception celebrates the conception of Mary, and the fact that Mary, from the time of her conception, was completely free from the stain of original sin.

 

It sounds like your RCIA director does not know what she is talking about.

 

The feast of the Annunciation is when we celebrate when Mary was informed by the archangel Gabriel about her motherhood of Our Lord.

[Kephapaulos]

I know we are supposed to be loving and understanding, but I must admit I do not like it when people end up being uneducated. Especially in their Catholic faith.

[Extraecclesiamnullasalus]

thats a very common stupid mistake. i can't believe that any good RCIA  teacher would not know that. i must then conclude that your RCIA  teacher is not very good at what she does.
 

[Deogratias]

I know we are supposed to be loving and understanding, but I must admit I do not like it when people end up being uneducated. Especially in their Catholic faith.

 

lol. Especially when they are teachers of the Catholic faith.

[Vincentius]

That Jesus is the Immaculate Conception is generally a Protestant  concept (for those Protties who are "educated"). Miss Fluffy's RCIA  instructor must be a convert to the Church who probably received the  same RCIA instruction from another convert who received the same ...  and the genealogy goes all the way back exactly 40 years tomorrow. Well   !

[miss_fluffy]

Yes, she grew up Methodist. But it seems to me that when you convert,  you should at least research the Catholic Dogma a little bit. This is  not the first error she has taught.
 
 

   
• She taught  us that the Sacrament of Reconciliation was instituted in Rome after  Catholics who denied their faith during the persecution were accepted  back into the church.
 

 
 

   
• She said that it wasn't necessary to believe in Purgatory to be a Catholic (apparently she doesn't)
 

 
 

   
• She said that the "Centering Prayer" that is practiced at the church came from Buddhism.
 

 

[Extraecclesiamnullasalus]

well.....
 
  from what i understand Confession was a sacrement established by Jesus  chirst, and it was orighinally a Jewish practice. also purgatory is  Dogma and if one does not believe in it they are a heretic.
 
 
 

[Pat]

Then she's a cafeteria Catholic, and she's teaching others to be the  same way. I say this not in condemnation, but as a fact based on the  description of what she teaches.
 
  Centering prayer is based on a heresy called quietism.  Most neo-Catholics are unaware of this, because they're profoundly  ignorant of anything before Vatican II.  It probably did come from  an Eastern religion, not necessarily Buddhism.  The Hindus have a  similar way of meditating, and the Eastern Orthodox ascetics practice  it in what is called "hesychasm".  This is all the more reason to  reject it--the Church does not need heretical foreign elements.

[DominusTecum]

She said that the "Centering Prayer" that is practiced at the church came from Buddhism.

 

I don't exactly know what a "centering prayer" is, or what it's doing "at the church," but it does sound rather eastern to me, I would not be surprised if it was derived from some pagan prayer.